Fiction Techniques

Question 1

Antithesis

Answer 1

Placing two opposing and contradicting ideas or things next to each other

Question 2

Allegory

Answer 2

Creating a story where the characters + events from a system of symbolic meaning to comment on a part of society/human exp.

Question 3

Archetype

Answer 3

Recurring symbol that embody essential aspects of human exp. - theme symbol setting or character

Question 4

Irony

Answer 4

Seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result

Question 5

Film related

Answer 5

Flashback
Flashforward
Foreshadowing

Question 6

Narrative Voice

Answer 6

Narrator is the perspective from
whom the story is told

Question 7

Focalisation

Answer 7

Describes the perspective through which the events of the story are seen

Question 8

Paradox

Answer 8

A phrase or situation that describes
conflicting concepts that cannot co-
exist

Question 9

Polysyndeton

Answer 9

Use of several conjunctions in
close succession providing a sense of
exaggeration - Wear down audience

Question 10

Satire

Answer 10

The use of humour, irony, or exaggeration to criticise

Question 11

Imperative

Answer 11

Communicates something that needs
to be done, and urgers the responder
to perform the action

Question 12

Interrogative

Answer 12

Sentence that asks a question

Question 13

Modality

Answer 13

Refers to the way language can express relationships to reality or truth